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I would really like to automate my workflow and organize my library, but I like to seed things forever. How do you automatically retrieve metadata to reorganize folders and filenames, while still being able to seed? Is creating a second copy of the files the only way, or is there something I'm missing?
Basically yes. You use *arr to find releases and make a copy with proper naming and metadata when a download finishes. On its own, that would not be great as you would double the size of everything. Except you use hard links. Those are kind of like shortcuts, but both the shortcut and original are the same thing. Both point to the same data on disk. In fact, they're indistinguishable from each other. If you delete one, the data remains as there is another link pointing to it. If you delete both, the data gets deleted. Basically they are free copies. You just have to make sure your file system supports them
I've started reading the guide on the subject. So now my problem is that I have different zfs datasets separating my library, and I suspect hardlinks won't work across them. So I'll have to rethink how I organize my filesystem.
Yep, hard links only work within the same filesystem. You can have multiple drives in raid that form a single partition and use hard links within the array.
Couldn't have said it much better myself. I think of hardlinks like backend and front end development offices.
The backend team has the data that frontend teams 1 & 2 use, but frontend team 3 isn't in the same office (filesystem) as the backend team so they can't access the data.
If frontend team 2 goes down, frontend team 1 still has access to the backend’s data
Writing new data: teams 1 and 2 go down then fuckit we can bulldoze backend and make a new backend for any new frontend teams.